diff --git a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.20.0.txt b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.20.0.txt index 2cc5fd7a9f..fa16dda07a 100644 --- a/Documentation/RelNotes/2.20.0.txt +++ b/Documentation/RelNotes/2.20.0.txt @@ -58,6 +58,17 @@ UI, Workflows & Features * "git multi-pack-index" learned to detect corruption in the .midx file it uses, and this feature has been integrated into "git fsck". + * Generation of (experimental) commit-graph files have so far been + fairly silent, even though it takes noticeable amount of time in a + meaningfully large repository. The users will now see progress + output. + + * The minimum version of Windows supported by Windows port fo Git is + now set to Vista. + + * The completion script (in contrib/) learned to complete a handful of + options "git stash list" command takes. + Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. @@ -108,6 +119,19 @@ Performance, Internal Implementation, Development Support etc. * Update fsck.skipList implementation and documentation. (merge 371a655074 ab/fsck-skiplist later to maint). + * An alias that expands to another alias has so far been forbidden, + but now it is allowed to create such an alias. + + * Various test scripts have been updated for style and also correct + handling of exit status of various commands. + + * "gc --auto" ended up calling exit(-1) upon error, which has been + corrected to use exit(1). Also the error reporting behaviour when + daemonized has been updated to exit with zero status when stopping + due to a previously discovered error (which implies there is no + point running gc to improve the situation); we used to exit with + failure in such a case. + Fixes since v2.19 ----------------- @@ -170,6 +194,21 @@ Fixes since v2.19 segfault, which has been corrected. (merge e467a90c7a tg/range-diff-corner-case-fix later to maint). + * The recently introduced commit-graph auxiliary data is incompatible + with mechanisms such as replace & grafts that "breaks" immutable + nature of the object reference relationship. Disable optimizations + based on its use (and updating existing commit-graph) when these + incompatible features are in use in the repository. + (merge 829a321569 ds/commit-graph-with-grafts later to maint). + + * The mailmap file update. + (merge 255eb03edf jn/mailmap-update later to maint). + + * The code in "git status" sometimes hit an assertion failure. This + was caused by a structure that was reused without cleaning the data + used for the first run, which has been corrected. + (merge 3e73cc62c0 en/status-multiple-renames-to-the-same-target-fix later to maint). + * Code cleanup, docfix, build fix, etc. (merge 96a7501aad ts/doc-build-manpage-xsl-quietly later to maint). (merge b9b07efdb2 tg/conflict-marker-size later to maint). @@ -181,3 +220,14 @@ Fixes since v2.19 (merge 0597dd62ba sb/string-list-remove-unused later to maint). (merge db2d36fad8 bw/protocol-v2 later to maint). (merge 456d7cd3a9 sg/split-index-test later to maint). + (merge 7b6057c852 tq/refs-internal-comment-fix later to maint). + (merge 29e8dc50ad tg/t5551-with-curl-7.61.1 later to maint). + (merge 55f6bce2c9 fe/doc-updates later to maint). + (merge 7987d2232d jk/check-everything-connected-is-long-gone later to maint). + (merge 4ba3c9be47 dz/credential-doc-url-matching-rules later to maint). + (merge 4c399442f7 ma/commit-graph-docs later to maint). + (merge fc0503b04e ma/t1400-undebug-test later to maint). + (merge e56b53553a nd/packobjectshook-doc-fix later to maint). + (merge c56170a0c4 ma/mailing-list-address-in-git-help later to maint). + (merge 6e8fc70fce rs/sequencer-oidset-insert-avoids-dups later to maint). + (merge ad0b8f9575 mw/doc-typofixes later to maint).